Pop quiz, hotshot. You’ve chosen to sync your vault to local storage using 1Password 4 for Android. Now you’ve got a new device and you need to migrate that data onto it. What do you do? What do you do?

Not to worry. Migrating your vault to another device isn’t as daunting as it may appear at first glance. You’ll just need access to a desktop computer and a USB cable.

Move the vault from the old device

The first thing you’ll need to do is connect your Android phone or tablet to your desktop with a USB cable. Then, open the device to view its files and folders on your computer.

Using Finder or Windows Explorer, navigate through your device’s local storage until you find the .agilekeychain folder that is your 1Password vault. Copy the entire folder to the desired location on your computer.

Migrate to a new device

To get that vault onto a new Android device, connect the new Android to the computer with the USB cable. Then, copy the entire folder to your new device’s local storage.

Migrating to Dropbox

If you’ve decided to switch to Dropbox for easier syncing between devices, you can do that easily. Make sure that Dropbox is installed on your Mac or Windows PC.

Once you’ve got Dropbox installed, open the Dropbox folder on your device and copy the .agilekeychain folder to it. You can use 1PasswordAnywhere to confirm that your vault transferred to Dropbox properly.

That’s it! If you’re syncing to local storage with 1Password 4 on Android, it’s a good idea to back up your vault to another device this way every now and then, just in case something bad should happen. That’s just perfectly normal paranoia. Everyone in the universe has that. :shifty_eyes: